To:CAMILLE HUYSMANS[1]

Written:Written in French earlier than March 28, 1912Published:First published in 1930 inLenin Miscellany XIII.

      Sent from Paris to Brussels.

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      Moscow,Volume 35,

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DearComrade Huysmans,

Ithank you for sending me the Paris
“resolution”.[2]

AsI have already written to you, the Conference of the
R.S.D.L.P. condemned the liquidators and various groups
abroad[3]which are introducing disorganisation into our
Party and represent nothing in Russia. On the one hand,
in Paris at the present time it is groups of this kind that
have voted for the above-mentioned resolution. An old
custom has it that all condemned persons have the right
to inveigh against their judges for 24 hours. The persons
who have signed the resolution have made excessive use of
this right, and perhaps even abused it.

Onthe other hand, there are groups whowere invitedto the Conference but refused to take part in it. Now they
are “protesting” and attempting to call another conference,
appealing to the gods to witness that they stand for unity.
A very original way to get unity! We shall see whether they
will make any headway in Russia. It is just as difficult to
carry out anything real in Russia as it is easy to vote for
abusive resolutions in Paris. And, of course, Paris, Vienna,
etc., do not possess the right to speak in the name of Russia.

Inany case, the persons who signed the Paris resolution
are in too much of a hurry when they begin to talk about
a “split”. In order to establish that a split exists, it must
be established that there exist at least two Central
Committeesin Russia. So far this is not so.

Asfor Citizen Plekhanov, the C.C. informed him more
than a month ago of the Conference resolutions. He has notvouchsafed a reply. Consequently, at the present time I am
quite ignorant of whether Citizen Plekhanov has (and fromwhichC.C.) any powers as a member of the International
Socialist Bureau.

Ifyou, dear comrade, are luckier than I, i.e., if you
get any reply from Citizen Plekhanov, I hope you will be
good enough to inform me.

Withfraternal greetings,

Yoursto command,N. Lenin

[1]Huysmans,Camille(b. 1871)—veternan=

of the Belgian
working-class movement; professor of philology and journalist. From 1904
to 1919 he was Secretary of the International Socialist Bureau of
the Second International. During the imperialist world war of
1914–18 he adopted a Centrist position.

[2]Leninrefers to the slanderous resolution passed by the meeting
of anti-Party groups in Paris on March 12, 1912 (see Note 19).

[3]Referenceis to the resolutions of the Prague Party Conference of
1912 on “Liquidationism and the Group of Liquidators” and “The
Party Organisation Abroad” (see present edition, Vol. 17
pp. 480–81, 484).